Welcome everybody back to Telecom Radio One and we are continuing our series dissecting popular IT

nerds. And today I'm very happy we've got Aaron Siemens on the show. And this is right before

you're taking off to go to Mexico. So, hey, man, thanks for

giving me a few minutes here before you actually, you know, go to have some fun in the sun,

hopefully here. Yeah, fun in the sun. Well, you know, I'm glad to be here. It's nice to give back

a little bit of knowledge for people that are trying to come up in the ranks and even people

have been there for a while.

Nice, nice.

So, Aaron, your IT manager at Yokohama Industries, you guys manufacture basically car housing

parts and maybe give me a little more detail there on what you guys manufacture.

But the main reason why I like having you on is manufacturing.

You know, you guys have a lot of, I would say, I don't want to say you guys are in a legacy

mindset, but manufacturing in general in America has a lot of legacy systems just due to the

nature of the business itself, right, because you've got a lot of moving parts.

So typically, I would say you have legacy systems that you are upgrading. Would you say that

that is true or not true? Yeah, I think that's true. I think some of the problem is that, you know,

the margins, once in the manufacturing to be awfully tight. So there's no real good way to justify the cost for, you know,

why do you need this IoT on this system or why do we need to replace this 60-year-old

server or whatever.

You know, I've seen all kinds of things from Dostal being used to, you know, old Windows

311 stuff.

And I think that's the kind of mindset that comes in is like, you know, it's not broke,

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